Climate Adaptation! Submersible Fish Cages Key To Self-Sufficiency

A Japanese technology in fish cage farming introduced shortly after Super Typhoon Yolanda devastated the fish farming industry of the Visayas, could be the key to attaining Self-Sufficiency in the country.
While most of the floating fish cages, including the Norwegian model, could be destroyed by strong waves because of typhoons and storms, the Submersible Fish Cages could be pulled down to a depth of about 15 feet and then refloated after the storm.
This technology was introduced by Japanese fishcage farming experts through the help of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) during the Typhoon Yolanda rehabilitation phase.
This is now widely used by fish cage farmers in Leyte and Samar and a Cebu City-based Filipino corporation, INCA Mariculture Plastics, has perfected the design.
I will be partnering with INCA Mariculture Plastics in the introduction of this technology.
With the support of Fil-Am Farmer/Scientist Rocky French, we will establish the first submersible fish cage farm in Mindanao.
This venture will be supported by friends who are investing in the project.
I will set up the first model of a fishcage farming project with a complete value chain.
The operations will include a small multi-species hatchery, a village-level feed mill to produce Aqua feeds, actual fish cage farming, value adding and processing and market linkage to ensure the sustainability of the project.
I hope that this would serve as a model to be replicated in other areas to show that the country could adjust to the risks and hazards of Climate Change.
We only need to establish 5,000 fish cages and the country could be fish self-sufficient.
#KungGustoMaramingParaan!
(Photos of the submersible fish cages estabished in San Juanico Strait in between Samar and Leyte were provided by INCA Mariculture Plastics. The last photo shows a prototype of the submersible fish cage for Grouper or Lapulapu.)